The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to honor outstanding papers in the field of operations research and the management sciences written by a student. The prize is given each year at the National Meeting if there is a suitable recipient. Up to six awards (first and second place awards and up to four awards for Honorable Mention) may be given upon recommendation of the selection committee. First place carries a cash award of $600, second place $300, and each honorable mention $100. All of the finalists are also presented with certificates.
Most Recent Winners
FIRST PLACE 2008
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- Erick Delage, Stanford University, "Robust Optimization under Moment Uncertainty with Application to Data-Driven Problems"
SECOND PLACE
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- Guanghui Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Efficient Methods for Stochastic Composite Optimization"
HONORABLE MENTION
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- Ning Cai, Columbia University, "Option Pricing under a Hyper-Exponential Jump Diffusion Model "
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- Anke van Zuylen, Cornell University, "Deterministic Pivoting Algorithms for Rank Aggregation and Other Ranking and Clustering Problems"
FINALISTS
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- Dmitriy Katz-Rogozhnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "On Deciding Stability of Multiclass Queueing Networks under Buffer Priority Scheduling Policies"
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- Tri-Dung Nguyen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Robust Covariance Estimation and Outlier Detection Using Semidefinite Programming: The Robust Ranking Problems with an Application in Portfolio Optimization"
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- Brad Null, Stanford University, "The Profit Curve for Budgeted Learning: Properties and Computation"
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- Jiheng Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Limited Processor Sharing Systems: Heavy Traffic Analysis and Steady State Approximations"
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